Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

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this is unfortunately a pretty much standard practice in the run-up to large tourist-attraction events like the Super Bowl. from The Enduring Tragedy of the Atlanta Olympics:

The solution to the city’s poverty and homelessness was to sweep people into prisons, conveniently located far from the Olympic Village. In addition to the Red Dogs, Atlanta police and another privately-funded unit called the Olympic Ambassadors were targeting and locking up the unhoused. Officers were allegedly mass-producing blank arrest citations with the pre-printed information, “African-American, male, homeless.”